StarPixels: Deep Dives
Deep Dives
Long-form explorations across cosmology, planetary science, and the restless physics in between.
The First Cities of Light (JADES z13)
How JWST’s deep-field spectroscopy is rewriting the opening chapters of galaxy formation.
Source image: ESA/Webb
Cosmic Cliffs: Sculpting a Nebula
Feedback, stellar winds, and radiation carve walls of gas into a stellar nursery’s skyline.
Source image: ESA/Webb
Perseids: Dust, Fire, and Geometry
From comet Swift-Tuttle to sky radiants—why August’s favorite shower rarely disappoints.
Source image: NASA
Saturn’s Rings: The Last Look
What Cassini’s swan-song orbits taught us about ring microstructure, waves, and moons.
Source image: JPL Photojournal
M27: A Star’s Last Breath
Planetary nebulae as time-lapse autopsies of dying suns—chemistry, shocks, and symmetry.
Source image: ESA/Hubble
Andromeda: Two Billion Pixels of History
Resolved stars, dust lanes, and a time capsule of mergers stitched from 600+ HST pointings.
Source image: ESA/Hubble